HOLLYWOOD - A seat on the "Hot Tamale Train" is no longer the benchmark of success on So You Think You Can Dance. There now is a more coveted ranking, a sweeter place known as the "Tra La La," and, yes, only judge Mary Murphy can explain what that means. She coined it last month, inspired by a Broadway routine performed flawlessly by hip-hop dancer Joshua Allen and his contemporary partner, Katee Shean, during Fox's multidiscipline dance competition for aspiring performers. After the performance, Murphy screamed in her usual jubilant, uninhibited, practically deranged manner.

Here we are in Atlanta. You can tell the auditions were in winter, as there is only a narrow window for wearing scarves in Georgia. Joining Nigel Lythgoe and Mary Murphy is Lil Buck, a Memphis-based dancer known for a style called " jookin . " Mariah Reives , 18, from Sanford, N.C., is a jazz dancer with charisma and legs for miles. Her style is very slinky and sexy, but still playful and young. She nailed the audition and you can tell by her giant smile that she knows it. Mary Murphy says she could see Mariah "doing almost anything we asked" her to do. Nigel says it was good technique married to great performance, so she's through to callbacks.

On May 18, 2004, CONSTANCE M. HARRISON (nee Erline), beloved wife of the late Beverly M. Harrison, devoted mother of Richard B. and Ronald J. Harrison; loving grandmother of Susan Darnley, Kelly Price, Jennifer and Sandra Harrison. She is also survived by ten great-grandchildren and dear sister of Mary Murphy and Charles Erline. Relatives and friends are invited to call at the Schimunek Funeral Home, Inc., 9705 Belair Road (Perry Hall), on Thursday from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 P.M., where funeral services will be held on Friday at 9:30 A.M. Interment Parkwood Cemetery.

Out of the frying pan and into the fire, I'm switching from one dance show to another, with barely a week between the "Dancing with the Stars" finale and the "So You Think You Can Dance "premiere. Audition episodes are often my least favorite, primarily due to the number of joke auditions. Let's hope those are kept to a minimum this year. Cat Deeley's introduction says, "Every summer for the past decade…" Have we really been watching this show for so long? Huh. We're officially at the point where contestants can realistically claim to have been watching the show their "whole life.

IRENE M. KIRKALDY, 90 First `freedom rider" Irene Morgan Kirkaldy, a black woman whose refusal to give up her bus seat to white passengers triggered a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision almost a decade before Rosa Parks gained recognition for doing the same, died Friday at her daughter's home in Gloucester, Va., said Fred Carter, director of Carter Funeral Home in Newport News.

CONCERT Keane: Often confused with Coldplay, these Brits will bring an updated sound to D.C. that should dispel the comparisons. The band has eased up on the sadness and embraced the pop. Starts 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at DAR Constitution Hall. More: ticketmaster.com EXHIBIT Chinasaurs : Next to the American West, there's probably no better place to find dinosaur fossils than China. The Maryland Science Center is putting more than 20 of these Chinese skeletons on display along with rare finds.

And now here we are on our regular night with Los Angeles auditions. It always makes me so happy to see Cat interacting with the dancers waiting in line -- she is sunshine in high heels. Judges tonight: Mary Murphy, Nigel Lythgoe, and professional goof Jesse Tyler Ferguson. Love him, too. Mary Murphy warns them, "No lip syncing, no 'self-worship,' and no booty-shaking, unless you're really good at it. " Jesse gets on the mike and says he wants to see everything Mary just forbade.

A former Columbia teacher's aide who wrote dozens of love letters to an 8-year-old third-grader at his school but never had any physical sexual contact with her was sentenced to seven years in state prison Friday in a precedent-setting sexual abuse case. Over prosecutor Mary Murphy's objections, Howard County Circuit Judge Diane O. Leasure allowed Karl Marshall Walker Jr., 39, to remain free on bail pending an appeal to the Maryland Court of Special Appeals. Louis P. Willemin, the deputy district public defender who represented Walker, said his client is the first person in the state to be convicted of sexual abuse without physical sexual contact.

A former Columbia teacher's aide who wrote dozens of love letters to an 8-year-old third-grader at his school but never had any physical sexual contact with her was sentenced to seven years in state prison Friday in a precedent-setting sexual abuse case. Over prosecutor Mary Murphy's objections, Howard County Circuit Judge Diane O. Leasure allowed Karl Marshall Walker Jr., 39, to remain free on bail pending an appeal to the Maryland Court of Special Appeals. Louis P. Willemin, the deputy district public defender who represented Walker, said his client is the first person in the state to be convicted of sexual abuse without physical sexual contact.

CONCERT Keane: Often confused with Coldplay, these Brits will bring an updated sound to D.C. that should dispel the comparisons. The band has eased up on the sadness and embraced the pop. Starts 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at DAR Constitution Hall. More: ticketmaster.com EXHIBIT Chinasaurs : Next to the American West, there's probably no better place to find dinosaur fossils than China. The Maryland Science Center is putting more than 20 of these Chinese skeletons on display along with rare finds.

HOLLYWOOD - A seat on the "Hot Tamale Train" is no longer the benchmark of success on So You Think You Can Dance. There now is a more coveted ranking, a sweeter place known as the "Tra La La," and, yes, only judge Mary Murphy can explain what that means. She coined it last month, inspired by a Broadway routine performed flawlessly by hip-hop dancer Joshua Allen and his contemporary partner, Katee Shean, during Fox's multidiscipline dance competition for aspiring performers. After the performance, Murphy screamed in her usual jubilant, uninhibited, practically deranged manner.

IRENE M. KIRKALDY, 90 First `freedom rider" Irene Morgan Kirkaldy, a black woman whose refusal to give up her bus seat to white passengers triggered a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision almost a decade before Rosa Parks gained recognition for doing the same, died Friday at her daughter's home in Gloucester, Va., said Fred Carter, director of Carter Funeral Home in Newport News.